Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Elder opened the debate. We are to discuss, he said, the transportation problem of the second largest city of the world. The question is of vast importance not only because of the great size of New York City, but because of its peculiar physical character, which makes transportation a daily necessity for the majority of its population. In view of the importance of transportation, the service should be adequate, convenient, and modern. When we examine the existing conditions, however, we find that the service is very unsatisfactory...
...great truth is simple. The all guiding Hand which we must feel when we look upon the vast power and beauty of nature-the "Invisible Through Nature" which all scientists and philosophers must come to regard-was the secret of the incarnation. Man has glimpses of this Being: Christ so thoroughly understood and appreciated it that it finally carried Him away...
...objection to the present game is that it is unserviceable to college men as a means of healthy exercise. It should be the object of ever intercollegiate sport to offer an opportunity for beneficial physical development. Judged by this standard intercollegiate football fails to be a benefit to the vast majority, and is a positive detriment to the others. Less than one tenth of the college men today engage in the game, and to the other nine-tenth; its offers no opportunity for exercise. The reason for this small percentage of players lies in the fact that the game necessitates...
...public service should study politics as a science. The times are now more propitious for such study than ever before, for the material is more abundant. Now nearly every civilized nation furnishes this material. Compare the materials with which the writer of the Federalist Papers worked and the vast material which constitutional governments now furnish. With the exception of Russia and Montenegro there is no civilized nation which does not have some form of popular government...
...Gordon made the next address. He said that the legitimate expectations of college life were the delightful membership, the share of knowledge, the method of inquiry into the vast compound life, the privilege of sitting under great teachers, but most of all the realization of a constant and solemn relation to this universe. Christianity is simply the sovereign mood--man at his best. The good name of the University is bound up in the willingness of the new men to perpetuate and enrich and make commanding that service here which makes the sovereign mood...